I’ve written openly and unabashedly
previously, and will wherever and whenever possible continue to do so at ever
opportunity, about the parlous state of British libraries in the 21st
Century as the long forgotten genial venues for the welcoming acknowledgement,
vigorous encouragement, constructive reinforcement and the objective and
universal dispensing to all and sundry who are themselves seeking to improve
their lives both socially and intellectually, and which indisputably
constitutes the primary platform and the fundamental role of libraries, in my
opinion, and why their altruistic, far-sighted originators and benefactors
established them in the first place.

But unfortunately and most regrettably in
practicably every conceivable sense within Britain these laudable pursuits and
programmes are now as far removed from these originally and for some
considerable time afterwards sterling and commensurately worthwhile goals as
one can possibly get. A tedious and exasperating situation to say the least and
one that can and must be steadfastly and truthfully laid not only at the feet
of many of today’s library users but also significantly and most ironically in
Britain’s case those of the vast majority of basically puerile jobsworth,
incompetent, attention-starved and therefore populist librarians themselves;
generating a truly wholesale tragedy that benefits no one, not even with the
merest modicum of intelligence, but all the same reinforces the dictum of
plummeting British society to the very bottom of the least common denominator
for all.

There is no doubt that
diabetes in both its forms: type 2 the more common one and type 1, and despite
the sterling efforts on the part of organizations in Britain, one wishes that
the same resolute commitment not only in financial terms but also in numerous
other evidently practicable ways were also invested by consecutive UK regimes
but which manifestly hasn’t been the case, but instead is an ongoing and
utterly despicable situation that both conscionably and urgently needs to be
attended to, and especially when these same regimes not only disingenuously
imply but also publicly and dishonestly say that there is no money available to
invest in vital counteractive measures like diabetes treatment coupled with the
eradication of this disease and other illnesses that imperil the health,
welfare and future prospects of the average British citizen or UK resident but
nevertheless can and do without any scruples or hesitation liberally and
willingly shell out shed-loads of money for useless and empire throwback
imperialistic and colonist adventures that are themselves exacerbated by the
obscene and hubristic purchase by the impracticability in their usage of
nuclear systems like Trident, that only wreak consummate misery on millions of
innocent civilians worldwide.

That diabetes is
significantly triggered and further exacerbated globally by propagandized and
self-serving financial interests foisted on a worldwide community by
irresponsible and corrupt multinational corporations and their associates
involved in crops mutation, the growing of them and their distribution and with
all sectors of these lucrative and exploitatively embarked on procedures
exclusively owned and controlled by a small coterie of utterly unconscionable,
totally lowlife scum and attendant with that graspingly avaricious
multi-billionaires who the more that they fleece the global population
financially the more they greedily want, I have no doubt whatsoever in my mind
on this and the other calamities that these dubious specimens calling
themselves human beings callously inflict on everyone, it must be said, so long
as there’s money in it to be made and garnered in dumper-truck loads for these
consummately Zionist-Nazi pimps.

For centuries and even
millennia global communities and countries have lived healthy and productive
lives in which they grew their crops naturally, fed the animals on which they
relied on in the same way and knew precisely what it was that they were ingesting
into their stomachs, and as such and especially in thoroughly sensible
countries like Barbados - which assiduously and quite harmoniously with Nature
routinely employed and benefited enormously from these harmonious procedures -
that per population as in Barbados’ case has the most centenarians anywhere in
the world carry on with their tried and tested solutions to a happy individual,
eating life and happy life. But unfortunately in many other countries the
culture of greed and making a quick buck has asininely interceded and
thoroughly screwed up many innocent lives as a result. And it’s not only
diabetes but also many varieties of cancer that as a consequence of these
unedifying and totally materialistic measures which are now savagely plaguing not
just a few countries but humanity globally.

So why don’t you, and
especially those of you in Britain, use your loaves and the brains you’re
supposedly born with, although I personally doubt that very much going by your
overall, rather stupid and manifestly brain-dead behaviour and instead of
hubristically and unthinkingly lending your idiotic weight to the insane
purchase of expensive and useless military toys for the personal aggrandizement
and greater financial empowerment of those that own and abusively control the
military industrial complex aided and assisted by their political lackeys, get
a grip on yourselves and do something truly constructive in terms of helping
top rid of not only in Britain but also the rest of the world of what I
honestly believe are curable diseases? And while you may flatter yourself that
neither you nor anyone close to you is a suffer of diabetes or any of the
malignant cancers, that’s fine now; but can you honestly say with certainty
what will happen to you or them in the long-term or even more crucially the
imminent future?

Whatever the
circumstances: natural and biologically, surrogate or test tube, in which each
and everyone of us ultimately enters this world that we’re in, the clear and
indispensible necessity of a human mother to assist and complete that process
is inevitable. That’s the physiological part which is itself markedly different
in a multitude of ways and wide-ranging permutations that can and not
uncommonly necessitates a series of actions or steps taken in order to realize
the particular end of raising each child that successfully makes it through
conception to birth and expectantly adulthood.

A complex evolution,
and not an over-statement to say so, whose development can be virtually trouble
free, pretty straightforward and infinitely beneficial for those individuals
fortunate to be so privileged but regrettably can also conversely be a
distinctly traumatic as well utterly debilitating nightmare for those who
aren’t so lucky particularly when the wilful dispenser of such angst is the one
person that conventional norms dictate should never be a part of that latter
equation. Yet how often do contemporary circumstances and tragic events prove
us to be totally wrong?

This poem was inspired by a four year old Asian girl of
Indian extraction and a total stranger to me as was her father who were both
waiting in a queue that I was at the head of in a well-known take-away
establishment waiting to be served at the same moment my purchased transaction
was in the process of coming to its conclusion. I had just paid for the items
that I’d ordered and was about to receive my receipt for them from the sales
assistant who’d served me when in the process of him doing so the receipt
accidentally slipped from his hand - an occurrence that he immediately
apologized to me for which was pleasantly very nice of him but in actual fact
there was absolutely no need at all for him to do so, since what had happened
was really no one’s fault and simply just one of those things – and landed on
the floor on my side of the counter that separated us.

Both the sales assistant and myself fully cognizant of what
had happened and also where precisely the receipt had landed and I motioned to
him that I’d pick it up just as soon as I’d safely and quite securely replaced
my debit card, which I had used for that particular transaction, back into my
shoulder bag that was now opened and also on the counter. However, before I
could do so I felt a gentle tap on my leg and on glancing to where it had come
from became aware of this smartly dressed and also beaming with a most
enchanting smile young girl of Asian extraction who’d in the process of her own
volition and quite unbeknown to me at the time had picked up the said receipt
and was now presenting it to me with the words: “You dropped your receipt and I
thought I’d pick it up for you.” Immensely charmed by what she’s voluntarily
and altruistically done I instinctively thanked her with the words: “Thank you
young lady; that was most kind and very thoughtful of you.” She smiled
engagingly and returned to her father.

I then thanked him although it was entirely his daughter’s
doing; but that said such behaviour from one so very young had to be derived
from somewhere, and not emerge purely from thin air, as every intelligent and
conscionable person in Britain well knows that such unselfish behaviour even
from supposedly mature adults is extremely rare and very akin to trying to
getting blood out of a stone; and so I warmly and genuinely and thanked that
little girl’s dad too for being the kind of father that he obviously was. And
with my own thoughts on the contemporary Britain that I routinely observe when
I’m there I was buoyed up with hope for its future, although not from those who
delude themselves that they alone are exclusively Britons and no one else has
any right to that supposedly on their part exceptionalist distinction. So thank
you again young lady, and here’s to the future and significantly too the kind
of civilized, diverse, compassionate and thoroughly principled Britain
that you and others like you, regardless of their race or background,
represent.

About Me

I'm a highly intelligent, articulate and well-educated human being with an intuitive but enterprising sense of responsibility and a strong moral compass that instinctively demarcates what's right and wrong.
Trust, confidentiality and having the courage, regardless of what I do, to formulate and stand by my own personal convictions are key aspects of my life and, unsurprisingly, are also principal characteristics I attach great importance to and naturally expect from those who want to play a meaningful role in my life.
I don't suffer fools gladly, in fact not at all and most definitely haven’t got any interest in or time for egotists, time-wasters, attention seekers or the narcissistic.
Furthermore, I’m an adult and in my private and professional lives prefer to deal with genuine adults, so anyone who wants to act childishly and thinks they can have any kind of relationship with me, then you’re wrong!
And my advice to you in that regard is to go and enrol in a kindergarten as you'll possibly have better luck there.
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